In this tutorial we are going to explore three date/datetime pickers options that you can easily use in a Django project. We are going to explore how to do it manually first, then how to set up a custom widget and finally how to use a third-party Django app with support to datetime pickers. Introduction […]

The Django forms API have two field types to work with multiple options: ChoiceField and ModelChoiceField. Both use select input as the default widget and they work in a similar way, except that ModelChoiceField is designed to handle QuerySets and work with foreign key relationships. A basic implementation using a ChoiceField would be: class ExpenseForm(forms.Form): […]

JWT stand for JSON Web Token and it is an authentication strategy used by client/server applications where the client is a Web application using JavaScript and some frontend framework like Angular, React or VueJS. In this tutorial we are going to explore the specifics of JWT authentication. If you want to learn more about Token-based […]

[Django 2.1.3 / Python 3.6.5 / Bootstrap 4.1.3] In this tutorial we are going to explore some of the Django Crispy Forms features to handle advanced/custom forms rendering. This blog post started as a discussion in our community forum, so I decided to compile the insights and solutions in a blog post to benefit a […]

In this tutorial you are going to learn how to implement Token-based authentication using Django REST Framework (DRF). The token authentication works by exchanging username and password for a token that will be used in all subsequent requests so to identify the user on the server side. The specifics of how the authentication is handled […]